grasp
verb (used with object)
to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
grasper
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a word derived from
grasp.
Example Sentences
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Researchers believe the species' long, curved claws and its ability to strongly flex them would have made it an efficient grasper of vegetation.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
In two lines you have a portrait of Milligan as a self-aggrandizing grasper and Burger as the justifiably confident voice of authority.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
The da Vinci’s three arms were loaded and ready to go: one held a grasper, the second held a hook, and the third held forceps.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
Gilroy once again cast Russo, his wife, as a well-heeled, coreless grasper: Her gallery owner, Rhodora Haze, is an ex-punk who’s reinvented herself as a “purveyor of good taste.”
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2019
Feeling, even destitute of conscious thought, stands a far better poetical chance; feeling being a sort of thought without the process of thinking,—a grasper of the truth without seeing it.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
